Our
Mission:To serve the local power and industrial
engineering community by promoting electrical safety, supporting
standards development, and providing professional development
opportunities and informational resources.

Welcome to the WEB page of the
Florida West Coast
Section's joint chapter of thePower Engineering Society
and Industrial Applications Society. A list of
upcoming and past seminars, tours, and meetings providing
opportunities for professional development can be found at our
meeting page.
We also actively promote and assist members with senior membership
applications. If you have over 10 years experience, you may
qualify for
senior membership and we would like to work with you on your
application. The local PES/IAS Chapter excom meets the last Thursday of every month at
Village Inn in Tampa on Dale Mabry
and member participation is ALWAYS welcome.
We welcome suggestions and comments. Please contact any of the
officers or volunteers listed above if we can be of service.

TheIEEE
Power Engineering Society is a worldwide, non-profit association of
more than 20,000 individuals engaged in electric power engineering. PES
members are involved in the planning, research, development,
construction, installation, and operation of equipment and systems for
the safe, reliable, and economic generation, transmission, distribution,
measurement, and control of electric energy. The Power Engineering
Society provides the world's largest forum for sharing the latest in
technological developments in the electric power industry, for
developing standards that guide the development and construction of
equipment and systems, and for educating members of the industry and the
general public. Members of the Power Engineering Society are leaders in
this field, and they ó and their employers ó derive substantial benefits
from involvement with this unique and outstanding association.

The scope of the
IEEE Industry Applications
Society, as a transnational organization, is the advancement of the
theory and practice of electrical and electronic engineering in the
development, design, manufacture and application of electrical systems,
apparatus, devices, and controls to the processes and equipment of
industry and commerce; the promotion of safe, reliable, and economic
installations; industry leadership in energy conservation and
environmental, health, and safety issues; the creation of voluntary
engineering standards and recommended practices; and the professional
development of its membership.

Ghaff
Khazami is a Senior Member of IEEE, PES/IAS Chairman for
FWCS of IEEE and Vice president of Megaway Inc. Consulting
Engineers in Tampa. He is a Professional Engineer
registered in the States of Florida and Wisconsin. Ghaff is
an alumnus of the University of South Florida with over
twenty five years experience in power utilities, consulting
and design of Substations, Transmission lines, System
Protection and Power System Analysis. Ghaff is a retiree
from the G&T Company Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc; and
has been involved in numerous Substation and Transmission
projects as a manager and consultant.

Johnís career spans 40 years in the field. He received a
bachelorís degree in ElectricalEngineering from
University of Pittsburgh in 1959. Johnís careerbegan
as a Product Test Engineer for IBM in New York State. Later
positions were with General Electric and Honeywell in
Aerospace Quality Control, and then a five year stint in
Industrial Communications and Control Field Engineering with
a commercial firm. This work included equipment operating in
fixed wire, carrier current, and mobile spectra
communications. John then worked for 10 years in various
plant engineering positions in the float glass industry. The
following 10 years were spent overseas in Saudi Arabia
working on projects in residential, commercial, industrial,
and utility installations at the King Khalid International
Airport at Riyadh. Johnís most recent position, from which
he is now retired, was with a telecommunications
construction company doing CAD and electrical design. John
was a student member of the AIEE and the IRE and upon
graduation he became a member of both societies. He is a
Life Member of the IEEE.

Tom
Blair is a Professional Engineer registered in the state of
Florida. He is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of the
IEEE Power
Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society, and
Standards Association. Currently he is employed with Tampa
Electric in Tampa as a Senior Consulting Engineer in
the Generation Engineering Division. Tom is an alumni
of the University of South Florida with a BS in Electrical
Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering in the power
program. Previously, Tom was a design engineer at Phasetronics / Motortronics performing design and
application engineering services for their solid state power
control products.

With over fifteen years
of experience in the power utilities and solid state power
controls Tom has been involved in many power projects as
design and commissioning engineer. Tom can be
contacted at 813-228-4407.

rt
Nordlinger is the Manager, Grid Planning and Operations
Support, at Tampa Electric Company where he manages both the
planning of the transmission system and energy management
system engineering. Art earned a Bachelor of Science degree
in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in
1979. His career began in the nuclear reactor design and
testing program for 688 class attack submarines at Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. He next worked in
the information systems field and in industrial and
commercial emergency power systems before attending
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and earning his Master of
Engineering degree in Electric Power Engineering in 1988.
Art then went to work for Florida Power Corporation,
starting as a project engineer in the Company's Energy
Control Center. He held a number of engineering and
management positions during his 13 years with Florida Power
in generation and integrated resource planning,
cogeneration, and the pricing and regulatory areas. He
appeared as the Company's witness in both the Florida Public
Service Commission's Demand Side Management Goals Docket
(for which he earned the Chairman's Award) and the Standard
Offer Rules Docket. Art struck out on his own in 2001,
starting Nordlinger Consulting which specializes in electric
utility regulation, strategic planning, and rate analysis.
He joined Tampa Electric in 2002. Art is a registered
Professional Engineer in Florida and teaches portions of a
Fundamentals of Engineering review course that reaches a
national audience through a webcast. Art has also taught
graduate courses at the University of South Florida in Power
System Analysis and Advanced Energy Management Systems. He
can be contacted at 813-630-6203.

Jim Beall is an IEEE Fellow. He
currently holds the positions of IAS Regional Representative
and Florida West Coast Section Conference Committee Chair.
In the past, he has also been IAS President, Florida West
Coast Section Chair, Florida Council Chair and Region 3 Director. Jim is the
Florida West Coast Section Historian.

Jim Howard is a Senior Member in IEEE.
He currently holds the positions of AESS VP Membership
Activities, Florida West Coast Section Student Branch
Mentor, and IEEE-USA Board of Directors Member-at-Large.
In the past, Jim has also been PES VP Membership and
Chapters, Florida West Coast Section Chair, PES/IAS Chapter
Chair, and Region 3 Director.